Cabinet meets to take up election, law and order issues: Memon
By Ali Imran

ISLAMABAD—The Federal Cabinet would meet here tomorrow (Monday) to discuss issues relating to the forthcoming elections and review prevailing law and order situation in the country.
Caretaker Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Nisar A Memon, said this while talking to a private television (ARY One World).
The Minister said, Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz will brief the cabinet on the law and order situation. Replying to a question, he said that law and order has almost come to normal, and day-to-day activities were resuming.
Memon said, he talked with the provincial authorities, who expressed satisfaction over the improvement in the situation which erupted after the assassination of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. Prime Minister Muhammadmian Soomro has started consultative process with the political parties, especially with PPP in light of the decisions taken at the last cabinet meeting.
He said, three-day mourning was observed in the country in accordance with the announcement by President Pervez Musharraf following the tragic incident, adding that the people are still in a state of grief and shock. Memon also stated that government had taken various measures to improve law and order situation. Law enforcing agencies in the provinces are taking miscreants to task to prevent incidents of looting, damaging properties and disturbing normal life.
The Minister also referred to the wave of terrorism, and said Benazir Bhutto herself was in the forefront fighting this menace. He said, the government was waiting for the decisions of the PPP Central Executive Committee to decide its future course of action on the issue of upcoming general elections.
To another question the Minister said, the federal cabinet would look into ground realities including input of the Election Commission before deciding about the holding of general elections on schedule.